THE DAILY
MISSISSIPPIAN
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Volume 103, No. 41
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France Beard wins 2015 Miss University pageant KATELYN MILLER
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France Beard is crowned Miss University 2015 by Miss University 2014 Anna Beth Higginbotham during the scholarship pageant Wednesday.
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France Beard won the 66th Annual Miss University Scholarship Pageant on Wednesday night at the Gertrude Ford Center. The pageant was hosted by Miss University 2014 Anna Beth Higginbotham and Miss Mississippi 2014 Jasmine Murray and featured 15 of the university’s best and brightest, competing for scholarships. Beard, a resident of Madison, Mississippi, won the title and a $2,000 scholarship. Her talent was a lyrical dance to “Dream in Color,” and her platform is the Children’s Miracle Network: Lifting Spirits, Providing Hope. She is a member of Kappa Delta sorority and a junior political science major. She stated in her on-stage interview that she hopes to become a defense attorney. Beard was also the recipient of the Interview and Lifestyle awards. The first alternate, winner of a $1,000 scholarship and the immediate successor to Miss University, was Morgan Lind-
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Hospital implements Two students dead over weekend new patient care plan
VICTORIA MEKUS
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi will implement a new document management system called Epic Care on Dec. 1. Epic Care, which stores patient records electronically, is intended to make it easier for physicians and medical staff to transfer documents with the click of a button. The switch to an electronic system is the direct product of a charter within an Affordable Care Act initiative. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will penalize hospitals that have not switched to the electronic system by a designated date.
Out of all Stage 7 medical systems in the United States, 69 percent of hospitals and 90 percent of clinics within the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society are now using the system, according to Epic Care. All hospitals within the Baptist Memorial Healthcare system are making the switch to Epic Care, calling their strain OneCare. “Patient safety is at the forefront of our minds in everything we do,” said Sonia McKeithen, assistant administrator for the hospital. “The establishment of electronic medical records will greatly reduce the time it takes for our doctors to see patients
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Luke Cameron Phillips, 19, a student at The University of Mississippi and Grant Thomas Womack, 22, a former student at The University of Mississippi both died this past weekend.
Luke Phillips
WTVA News in Tupelo reported that, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Phillips was traveling Friday night eastward in the westbound lanes of Highway 278 when his Nissan struck a Mazda minivan. Highway patrol pronounced Phillips dead at the scene around 11 p.m. on Highway 6 in Pontotoc County. Phillips was a freshman accountancy major from Olive Branch, Mississippi. The university confirmed that Womack died Sunday at Baptist Memorial Hospital. He was last enrolled in spring of 2014 seeking a B.B.A. in real estate through the School of Business Administration. Womack was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. Kappa Alpha Order expressed their grief about
Womack’s death in a tweet earlier this week. “Our most heartfelt thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of Grant Womack. You will be truly missed by us, brother.”
Grant Womack